And canada is considering pushing back the public domain 20 years, under
... us influence yet again.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/
(Proposed and existing) US policy (foreign and domestic) is not really
in favor of wikimedia at the moment, is it? :-/
sincerely,
In France we we're that far [me showing a little space between my
fingers] to get a similar law in 2006 and 2009. The law passed but all
the "site blocking" things were removed following some lobbying (in
which WMFr did not take part but some of the members did on a personal
level).
All the plan f
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:02:32PM +0100, emijrp wrote:
> http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-on-fire/
>
> 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo)
>
> > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59:
> > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can
> > block
>
http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-on-fire/
2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo)
> emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59:
> > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can
> block
> > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that
emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59:
> With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block
> any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that
> _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever.
> Without a judge.
That's entirely different!
> F
With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block
any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that
_links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever.
Without a judge.
For further details, search for an analysis.
2012/1/4 Lodewijk
We should be careful to start calling all copyright related laws evil (at
least you seem to suggest that) because then that would devaluate very
quickly. At least what I see quickly (but IANALawyer and IANASpaniard) this
law is not thát evil: the government can ask to close a website that is
actual
Yes, the Great United States of America is a POV pusher country which is
lobbying to create new laws to protect its IP industry overseas.
2012/1/3 Kim Bruning
>
> Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg.
> .es :
>
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248
Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg. .es :
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248/spanish-website-blocking-law-implemented
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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